The Sufi Moving meditation class provides a welcome and necessary break from multitasking.

Moving with your breath and music, chanting, and dancing allow you to enjoy the spaciousness of single-tasking. Each one can put you in a meditative state. The combination helps you go deeper.

Benefits include physical relaxation, mental peace, clarity, and creative thought. 

Two days ago, I had an exhausting day of multi-tasking. I was trying to write some material for my website and kept getting interrupted by texts. I haven’t figured out how to turn off the notifications on my computer so I fell into the trap of multi-tasking. It took me twice as long to finish because I kept losing track of what I was doing. Has that ever happened to you?

Next, I joined a speaker networking meeting, where everyone spoke at hyper speed while instructing us to post our questions and information in the chat. Just two tasks! I found it harder and harder to do. I kept losing track of the presentation, messed up my chats, and couldn’t formulate my questions without typos. 

I fell into the same multitasking in the evening when I spoke at a Toastmasters meeting as a guest speaker. After my talk, I received wonderful feedback in the chat about my presentation. Trying to respond to each one, I fell into the rabbit hole of multitasking and missed a lot of the next speaker's opening comments. As a result, I had a hard time following what she was saying. My brain felt fried.

Numerous studies reported on the American Psychological Association's website, show that multitasking actually reduces our efficiency. Each time you switch your task, your mind must shift goals, rules, and what to focus on. The more you switch the bigger the cost in time and performance.

Listening and comprehending is not the same as formulating a written question or answer. Answering texts, searching for a file, or posting comments are not the same as writing website content.

We live in a world that promotes multitasking with its incessant demands for our attention in social media, emails, texting, television, and the beeping of machines. Interruptions by bosses, partners, telephone calls, and children also add to the problem

Meditation, particularly the ultra-slow movement of the Sufi work, gives your mind a delicious break and resets your ability to process information.

If you have a problem to solve or a project to plan, meditation can help you clear your mind while enabling new neural connections to provide you with novel ideas and better solutions to life’s puzzles.

I recommend meditation every day.

Join me tomorrow for my Sufi Moving Meditation class -- Friday, October 6th at 9 am PDT.

Zoom Link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89999494833?pwd=V2pOS28yYUdXM3hkaW1rVWIvSjBUdz09

Meeting ID: 899 9949 4833

Passcode: SUFI

9 am PDT is early morning on the West Coast! Here's a time converter link if you need to check the time in your location.

Be brilliant.

Michelle

Dr. Michelle Peticolas

Life Transformation Coach

Empowering Women to Reinvent Their Life After Loss

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